Cornelius Obonya

The true story of Franz Streitberger, the director’s great-grandfather, a motorcycle courier for the Austrian Army. At the beginning of the Second World War, this introverted young soldier comes across a wounded fox cub that he looks after and takes to occupied France with him – and through this unique friendship, his own past as an outcast farmers son slowly catches up with him.

How can cinema engage with complicity in crimes against humanity, extreme violence and state terror without conniving in it? De Facto finds answers to this question via two actors, a precisely compiled collage of texts and a deliberately reduced setting.

ALMA AND OSKAR explores the passionate and tumultuous three-year relationship between the Grand Dame of Viennese society Alma Mahler (1879-1964) and the Austrian artist and enfant terrible Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980). In the early 1900s, Kokoschka was an up-and-coming painter, influenced by the work of Gustav Klimt yet with his own distinctive expressionist style.

Cuando Karl conoce a la vienesa Nini, está convencido de que ella es el amor de su vida. Desafortunadamente, pierde su número de teléfono. Lo único que sabe es que Nini siempre celebra su cumpleaños en el famoso Café Sacher a las tres de la tarde. Karl decide irse de Berlín y se va a Viena a esperar a Nini todos los días en el café. Hace nuevos amigos, incluida la panadera Miriam. Con ella, Karl descubre Viena mientras busca el amor verdadero.

1779. Ludwig van Beethoven, de ocho años, llamado "Louis", ya es conocido como un prodigio musical. Aprende a seguir su propio camino, para consternación de las personas que lo rodean. Algunos años más tarde, conoce a Mozart en tiempos de agitación política. El genio poco convencional y la Revolución Francesa están provocando un fuego en el corazón de Louis; no quiere servir a un maestro, solo las artes. Enfrentando tiempos de tragedias familiares y amor no correspondido, casi se da por vencido. Sin embargo, Louis llega a Viena para estudiar con Haydn en 1792, y el resto es historia. ¿Quién era este hombre, cuya música desde entonces ha tocado innumerables corazones y mentes? Al final de su vida, el maestro queda aislado por la pérdida de sus seres queridos y de la audición. Sin embargo, seguramente estaba muy adelantado a su tiempo.

1866: The Prussian-Austrian war has left deep marks on Alois. In the snow-covered mountains, the Bavarian is robbed by a deserter, who does not turn out to be his worst enemy…

Underestimated by his contemporaries, but today acclaimed as one of the greatest and imaginative composers of his time. Anton Bruckner was a genius of tones. Such great conductors like Kent Nagano, Valery Gergiev and Simon Rattle let the composer comes alive in the documentary „Anton Bruckner – The Making of a Giant“ telling the ups and downs of life through his music.

Tras un accidente María, la madre de la presentadora de televisión Lisa Wartberg, sufre de pérdida de memoria. Todo lo que puede recordar es que nunca ha estado en Nueva York. Sin más preámbulos, la anciana se sube de polizón a bordo de un crucero.

Una tragedia tiene lugar a puerta cerrada. El tema es universal: una historia de personas atrapadas en una red de poder inhumana. Se suceden las reuniones del Eurogrupo, que imponen a Grecia la dictadura de la austeridad y que ignoran cualquier signo de humanidad y compasión. Una trampa claustrofóbica que no tiene salida y que ejerce presiones en los protagonistas y, finalmente, los divide. Una tragedia en el sentido de la Grecia clásica: los personajes no son buenos ni malos, pero que se ven arrastrados por las consecuencias de lo que ellos perciben que es lo correcto. Esta es una tragedia de plena actualidad.

A murder case is drawing more attention to the family history of historian Adelgunde. In cooperation with a young Russian girl, who knows surprisingly much about her father, Adelgunde finds out about strictly guarded family secrets.

Erik(a) Schinegger – the ski star who became a media sensation. Erika was hailed as a champion skier, until a sex test determined that she was a he – and Erik was rejected and accused of fraud. A story based on real life, a tale about nature and the taboo subjects of 1970s society.

Taxi driver meets love,God,frendship,with bunch of great humor.

In Austria's "Little Siberia," the coldest region in the country, wildlife flourishes among the swamps, peat bogs and alpine lakes.

Viena, Austria, 1910. El joven pintor Egon Schiele es un artista en alza, provocador y libre, cuya obra, caracterizada por el erotismo, escandaliza tanto como fascina a los amantes del arte.

A serious car accident completely robs Maria of her memory. Husband Bruno angrily searches for the fugitive driver involved in the accident and discovers that Maria had secrets from him. When Maria wakes up from the coma, Bruno is overjoyed at first. The children Lucy and Joey also believe that family life will be as it was before. Maria, however, is indifferent to her husband and children. A strange man reveals himself to her as a lover. What is being played here?

Agathe von Trapp, la hija mayor de una familia dedicada a la música, supera muchos obstáculos para continuar su carrera musical y trasladarse a los Estados Unidos. Basada en el libro de memorias 'Agathe von Trapp: Memories Before and After The Sound of Music'.

En 1799, una joven es enviada por su madre a aprender el oficio de comadrona. Pero quien debe enseñarle no está por la labor y la manda sin ninguna formación a un centro de parto municipal.

Tao es un niño chino de ocho años que presencia el asesinato de su familia en el restaurante que regentan en Viena. Los asesinos descubren a Tao, pero él se las ingenia para escapar de sus captores.

Michael ha sido ascendido a Caballero de la Órden del Dragón del Rey Segismundo cuando el avance de los tártaros sobre los pueblos cristianos del norte y centro de Europa parece implacable. Ella, embarazada y sin encontrar su sitio en la Corte, decide escapar de Palacio para volver a su hogar. Sin embargo, las envidias cortesanas harán que Marie sea asaltada y secuestrada.

Four loosely connected stories tell of the here and now, where human trafficking, the vagaries of people smugglers, violence against women, restrictive immigration laws, gambling addiction, debt and business deals of all kinds are the order of the day.

German TV adaptation of Grimm‘s fairy tale “Iron John“.

Katharina Wallner is the owner of a long-established business for film videos. After the will of her disinherited landlord Heinz Ortner she should now close the lovingly run shop. So far, she was able to withstand Ortner's harassment, but the dreamy old lady is annoyed at the end. Her sister Hannah, surprisingly returning from South America, encourages Katharina to do something about the homeowner. When Ortner lies dead in the stairwell the next morning, Katharina comes over a terrible suspicion.

A multicultural satire about the German guest workers and numerus clausus refugees in Austria, about the mysterious tension between German prepotency and feelings of inferiority and about the clash of cultures - told and performed by a single actor.

A young woman is found raped and bludgeoned to death. Her father can’t reconcile himself with her death, and even less with the fact that the murderer was never found. Half of his life he continues the search. Finally, after more than 20 years, as DNA-analysis becomes a factor in forensic medicine, new perspectives open.

Think of a really nice person, a friend of yours, someone who could never hurt a fly. Imagine finding out that he is supposed to have killed someone. You're told that he has shot a person in a bar, for no obvious reason. He has already confessed. He says the murder was planned. He expects a life sentence. He even longs for it. He wants to pay for his crime. The psychiatrist cannot see any mental illness. People around him don't think him to be evil. They like him. They want to help him and protect him from himself. And they all ask the same question: Why....?

A killer for the Russian Mafia in Vienna wants to retire and write a book about his passion - cooking. The mafia godfather suspects treason.

Helma Sanders-Brahms directs this inventive film that uses the verse of Jewish poet Else Lasker-Schüler and Nazi poet Gottfried Benn to dramatize the passionate, real-life affair between the two unlikely lovers. Forced out of Germany, Lasker-Schüler makes her way to Jerusalem even as Benn discovers the true nature of the Nazi ideology he had once championed. Lena Stolze and Cornelius Obonya star.

A comedy directed by Helmut Lohner